If you haven’t heard, video killed not only the radio star, but also the resume. The resume isn’t dead yet, but the video interview is a naughty vixen pulling the hiring manager’s attention away from traditional resumes. Video is the Blanche DuBois to the resume’s Stella Kawolski. Stella gets the job done, but Blanche kicks things up a whole ‘nuther …

I recently traveled down to Sydney, Australia to speak at HR Tech Fest. I was asked to do a couple of sessions, and because I spent twenty hours on planes getting there, I thought, “What the hell is another hour on stage?!” My first sessions was on HR Technology 101. My second session was called “Candidate Experience is the Biggest …

I’ve had a feeling for about 18 years that I wasn’t doing vacation right. Not coincidentally, 18 years ago was the birth of my first child, on our way to three boys. Vacations didn’t seem like vacations. Once you have kids vacations become just trips away from home, where you get less sleep, you pay to get less sleep, and …

So you’ve resisted the trend to move some of your training to video. Well played, my friend. After all, you know how to deliver this stuff—live and in person. Whether it’s the boring items in your new-hire orientation, skill training or notes on how to not harass your teammates, there’s nothing wrong with your focus on classroom style training. Wait—there …

The Annual Sackadamus FOT Predictions have become legendary, primarily for their uncanny accuracy and for the simple fact no one is willing to go out on such a limb within the industry. Back in 2009, it was I who predicted the take off of video interviewing/video profiles! I also predicted Healthcare reform would go nowhere, so 50/50 seems to be …

lOver the weekend I caught the movie The Internship starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, (I know it has been out for a while, I’m not a opening night kind of person I guess), which chronicled in a way that was probably reasonably accurate or at least indicative of, the summer internship program at America’s most wanted to work for …

I think video interviewing is a nifty idea. When two people can connect in the early stages of the hiring process and figure out if they like one another — without a whole lot of time and investment from either party — I am on board. And let me feed my ego: I was an early adopter of video interviewing …